Here it is! Acting Ensemble's 2021-2022 Season. All performances listed here are to be held at our new home, 602 East Mishawaka Avenue in Mishawaka.
ENSEMBLE ON THE AVENUE
602 E. Mishawaka Avenue, Mishawaka
Season tickets available now. MainStage Pass (7 Full Productions), StageWorks Pass (12 Staged Readings), or see them all at a discount with your All-Season Pass.
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STAGEWORKS Staged Readings
9/7/2021 Daisy by Sean Devine
In 1964 a group of “ad-men” unleash the most devastating political commercial ever conceived. Based on true events.
10/5/2021 Monte Carlo by Lydia Stryk
Daisy’s mundane world is turned upside down when she wins the football pool and becomes a millionaire.
11/2/2021 The Library by Scott Burns
A youngster struggles to tell her survival story after a deadly school shooting in this bold and chilling play that examines the relationship between our truths and lies.
12/7/2021 Kiss of the Spider Woman by Manuel Puig
A testament to fantasy and friendship in the direst of circumstances. Not the musical.
1/4/2022 The Minotaur by Anna Ziegler
This present-day re-telling of a classic Greek myth uses refreshing originality and wit to show how we break out of history to shape new stories for ourselves.
2/1/2022 I And You by Lauren Gunderson (rights pending)
A seemingly mundane poetry project unlocks a much deeper mystery bringing two teens together. An ode to youth, life, love, and the strange beauty of human connectedness.
3/1/2022 The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey by James Lecense
A tenaciously optimistic and flamboyant fourteen-year-old boy is a luminous force of nature whose magic is only truly felt once he goes missing.
4/5/2022 My Barking Dog by Eric Coble
Two lonely people are pushed suddenly into the unforeseen when a starving coyote shows up at their apartment building.
5/3/2022 Kill Move Paradise by James Ijames
Four Black men find themselves trying to make sense of their new paradise in a waiting room for the afterlife. Inspired by the list of slain black men and women, this illustrates the potential for collective transformation and radical acts of joy.
6/7/2022 The Revolutionists by Lauren Gunderson
Four beautiful, bad-ass women lose their heads in this irreverent, girl-powered comedy set during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror.
7/5/2022 Peter and Alice by John Logan (rights pending)
Enchantment and reality collide as this brief encounter lays bare the lives of two extraordinary characters.
8/2/2022 Two Thirds Home by Padraic Lillis
Brothers discover that sharing secrets can create and destroy intimacy when they return home after their mother’s funeral.
FULL PRODUCTIONS
9/17 –9/26/2021 Mr. and Mrs. Fitch by Douglas Carter Beane
Married gossip columnists find that when the social circuit no longer provides juicy morsels, great celebrity can appear out of thin air. A scathing comedy about who is in, who is out and who may not exist at all.
11/4 – 11/14/2021 The Originalist by John Strand
A liberal Harvard Law School graduate discovers Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia to be both an infuriating sparring partner and an unexpected mentor. This critically acclaimed drama depicts passionate people risking heart and soul to defend their version of the truth.
1/14 – 1/23/2022 Beyond the Fringe by Jonathon Miller, Alan Bennet, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore These satirical sketches and musical pieces are a forerunner to British television programs That Was the Week That Was, At Last the 1948 Show and Monty Python's Flying Circus.
3/11 – 3/20/2022 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Gynecological Exam at Sloane-Kettering by Halley Feiffer
A foul-mouthed twenty-something comedian and a middle-aged man embroiled in a nasty divorce are brought together unexpectedly when their cancer-stricken mothers become roommates in the hospital.
4/29-5/8/2022 Big Scary Animals by Matt Lyle
A hilarious collision of race, sex, guns, and sports. When an older white couple from the country unknowingly moves to the multi-ethnic gayborhood, it doesn’t take long for polite dinner conversation to careen out of control.
6/17 – 6/26/2022 Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
This classic drama, a sensation in its own time, examines the marriage of a middle-aged couple, Martha and George who, after a university faculty party, draw their guests, unwitting young Nick and Honey, into their bitter and frustrated relationship.
8/5 - 8/14/2022 Becky Shaw by Gina Gionfriddo
A newlywed couple fixes up two romantically challenged friends: wife’s best friend, meet husband’s sexy and strange co-worker. Crisis and comedy ensue in this wickedly funny play that asks what we owe the people we love and the strangers who land on our doorstep.